Welcome to the Vanderbilt Medical Research Student Research Training Program website.

The Vanderbilt Medical Research Student Research Training Program (SRTP) is sposored by the National Institutes of Health and allows medical students to conduct research under the direction of an established scientist in the areas of diabetes, obesity, kidney disease, or digestive disease at Vanderbilt during the summer between the first and second year or second and third year of medical school.

Kidney Disease: Research areas include diabetic nephropathy, immune-mediated kidney disease, kidney fibrosis, hypoxia and cellular signaling, metabolism and inflammation in acute and chronic kidney disease, and psychosocial aspects of kidney disease. Click HERE » for more information. Students selected for this program will participate in the Vanderbilt Center for Kidney Disease Student Research Training Program in Kidney Disease

Participation Dates: Students must participate for a minimum of two calendar months between June and August and participate in the research symposium at Vanderbilt
on Wednesday, August 1st, 2018 and on Thursday, August 2nd, 2018.

Program staff will assist students in selecting an appropriate research project and preceptor. Prior research experience is not required. In addition to working on his/her own research project, each student attends a series of seminars addressing various clinical and research aspects of diabetes mellitus and its complications, kidney disease, and digestive disease.

The Vanderbilt Medical Student Research Training Program is supported by the Vanderbilt Short Term Research Training Program
for Medical Students (NIH grant DK007383), Vanderbilt Research Training in Diabetes and Endocrinology (NIH grant T32 DK007061), and the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (NIH grant DK20593).